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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: "J. Bakshi" <joydeep@infoservices.in>
Cc: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to provide authentication along with git command itself ?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:02:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110714200244.GA14687@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110714163149.63bad937@shiva.selfip.org>

J. Bakshi wrote:

> Well, I am using version 1.7, hence not DAV but using git-http-backend 

Ah, I forgot to mention the docs for gitolite and http-backend[1].

As for your original question about how to set up or cache credentials,
unfortunately I haven't tried it.  Based on git-push(1), it looks like
the usual

	http://username:pass@domain/path/to/repo

syntax should work if you're passing the full URL on the command line
or if it's okay to store the usernames and passwords in plaintext in
.git/config.

If that's not okay, it also might be possible to hack up something
evil with the GIT_ASKPASS variable.  Some of the patches mentioned in
the recent discussion about password prompts also might be
interesting[2].

Regards,
Jonathan

[1] http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/doc/http-backend.html
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/176522

      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-14 10:45 How to provide authentication along with git command itself ? J. Bakshi
2011-07-14 10:50 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-07-14 10:59   ` J. Bakshi
2011-07-14 11:12     ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2011-07-14 10:53 ` Jon Seymour
2011-07-14 11:01   ` J. Bakshi
2011-07-14 20:02     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]

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